Fact Check: Was a Muslim boy tied to a pole and beaten in Delhi? Know the truth of the viral claim

New Delhi: A video is being shared widely on social media. In which some people are tying a person to a pole and beating him/her with sticks. While sharing this video, users have claimed that this video is from Delhi. Where a mentally suffering Muslim man was beaten to death for eating Prasad. However, when Sajjag’s team fact checked this video, the truth about this viral video came out.

what was claimed

Posting this video on social media, an ex-user @Sheikhalfaris wrote, ‘A mentally ill Muslim man was brutally beaten to death by a Hindu extremist mob in Delhi. As reported, the victim Israr Ahmed had gone to a Hindu religious festival and had prasad in Delhi.

Another user @TaslimaNasrinPa also posted this video on Instagram and claimed that a Muslim boy was beaten with a stick in Delhi for eating Prasad.

What was found in the investigation

When Sajjag’s team fact-checked the video that was going viral on social media, they found posts from other users on X too in which a similar claim was made that a Muslim boy was tied to a pole and beaten up for eating Prasad. Went.

After seeing these video posts, first of all, Sajjag’s team checked the video through reverse image and found out that this incident happened in Delhi, but it was a year old. Sajjag’s team took the investigation forward and started searching for some media reports on Google about the man tied to a pole. After which the team Dainik Bhaskar A report was received. Whose heading was – When he/she ate the Prasad, he/she beat Isar, pulled out his/her nails, killed him/her: Mother of the accused said – They beat him/her with sticks on his/her feet, no one dies from that.

Along with this, a video uploaded on X on 27 September 2023 was also found. In which a user named @JUS_FANofRG had told that a 26 year old Muslim boy was killed in Delhi.

conclusion: The video of a Muslim boy being tied to a pole and being killed turned out to be old on social media. According to Sajjak’s investigation, this incident took place a year ago on September 27. In which some people had killed a Muslim boy named Isar by tying him/her to a pole.